I think that the formation of [DNA’s] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular genetics in recent years.
LINUS PAULINGThe only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
More Linus Pauling Quotes
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Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.
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Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
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Science is the search for truth – it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.
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You can’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
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Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.
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Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
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The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used – we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immorality.
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If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.
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Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
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Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
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Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud.
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I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs — there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism.
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I think every person should be able to enjoy life. Try to decide what you most enjoy doing, and then look around to see if there is a job for which you could prepare yourself that would enable you to continue having this sort of joy.
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Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all.
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